{"quotes":[{"text":"The worst kind of tyrant was the one who once had been the victim.","author":"John A. Williams","tags":["hypocrisy","tyranny","tyrant"],"id":57634,"author_id":"John+A.+Williams"},{"text":"Truth is a tyrant-the only tyrant to whom we can give our allegiance. The service of truth is a matter of heroism.","author":"John F. Kennedy","tags":["allegiance","heroism","service","truth","tyrant"],"id":60590,"author_id":"John+F.+Kennedy"},{"text":"Discerning the difference between a dictator and a leader is quite easy. The former cannot help but see ‘leading’ and ‘serving’ as stark contradictions that by their very nature are utterly incompatible. The latter can’t tell the difference.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["deceit","deception","despot","dictator","elections","government","government-corruption","guide","leader","leadership","manager","politician","politics","sacrifice","sacrificing","servant-leadership","tyrant","united-states","visionary"],"id":101450,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"Democracy and tyranny are not distant relatives. They’re bedfellows.”-General John JamesCommandant, USMCDecember 11th, 2032.","author":"L. Douglas Hogan","tags":["dystopian","oath-takers","patriotic","philosophy","political","tyrant"],"id":101574,"author_id":"L.+Douglas+Hogan"},{"text":"Love is the only tyrant whose reign is sweet.","author":"Matshona Dhliwayo","tags":["boyfriend-and-girlfriend","boyfriend","courtship","dating","girlfriend","husband","love","love","love-and-sayings","love-for-everybody","marriage","relationship-advice","relationship","relationships-101","romance","sweet","sweet-romance","tyrant","wife"],"id":123953,"author_id":"Matshona+Dhliwayo"},{"text":"That figure stood for a long time wholly in the light; this arose from a certain legendary dimness evolved by the majority of heroes, and which always veils the truth for a longer or shorter time; but to-day history and daylight have arrived.That light called history is pitiless; it possesses this peculiar and divine quality, that, pure light as it is, and precisely because it is wholly light, it often casts a shadow in places where people had hitherto beheld rays; from the same man it constructs two different phantoms, and the one attacks the other and executes justice on it, and the shadows of the despot contend with the brilliancy of the leader. Hence arises a truer measure in the definitive judgments of nations. Babylon violated lessens Alexander, Rome enchained lessens Caesar, Jerusalem murdered lessens Titus, tyranny follows the tyrant. It is a misfortune for a man to leave behind him the night which bears his form.","author":"Victor Hugo","tags":["history","light","napoleon-boneparte","tyrant"],"id":135347,"author_id":"Victor+Hugo"},{"text":"A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover -- but will sooner or later find a tyrant.","author":"George Gordon Byron","tags":["feminism","love","men","relationships","tyrant","women"],"id":138488,"author_id":"George+Gordon+Byron"},{"text":"The Biblical writers not only had no knowledge of these things, but they had a perverted concept of life and the universe. Their concept was that man was a victim of blood pollution and his only salvation was by a blood atonement.I remember once seeing a small pamphlet entitled, 'What the Bible Teaches about Morality.' On opening the little booklet, it was discovered to be nothing but blank pages! Another such pamphlet might very appropriately be published entitled, 'What the Bible Reveals about Disease, Medicine and Health,' and blank pages should be used for all the Bible contains about these vital subjects.On the contrary, these benefits have been denounced by the believers in the Bible, and by the representatives of the Bible's deity as being contrary to 'God's Plan.' Does not the Bible plainly state that only by the sweat of his brow is man to labor for the bread he eats? Here is the exact Biblical quotation: 'In the sweat of thy face thou shalt eat bread...' and why? Only because he sought knowledge.And does not the Bible God place a curse upon man for the knowledge that has been such a solace and benefit to him? Here is another exact Biblical quotation: '... Cursed be the ground for thy sake; in pain thou shalt eat of it all the days of thy life.'The Bible is a lie.It is a fake and a fraud.I denounce this book and its God. I hold it in utter detestation.Every man and woman who has contributed to the relief of the pain and suffering of humanity has been an infidel to the Bible God! Every new invention, every new discovery for the benefit of man violates these Biblical edicts!I say, seek knowledge—defy this tyrant God—it is your only salvation.","author":"Joseph Lewis","tags":["atonement","benefit","blood","curse","discovery","edicts","fraud","health","knowledge","lie","life","medicine","morality","tyrant","universe","victim"],"id":143857,"author_id":"Joseph+Lewis"},{"text":"It is also in the interests of the tyrant to make his subjects poor... The people are so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for plotting.","author":"Aristotle","tags":["poverty","tyrant"],"id":164268,"author_id":"Aristotle"},{"text":"Initially, the God of the Old Testament might seem overwhelming and domineering to you, or tyrannical, or perhaps even evil, which is good. It is the first telling that God is indeed God, by sheer definition, and not some ear-tickling fairy by which one in his depravity is guaranteed to find another form of stale romanticism or love at first sight. For such a first impression as the latter would be problematic to the essence of Christianity. Therefore the Christians are right in saying that the nature of imperfect men cannot ultimately co-exist with the nature of a perfect God; and that the hope of each man is now desperately found in God's sending of Christ.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["agnosticism","apologetics","atheism","bible","christ","christianity","depravity","domineering","evil","faith","fear","god","good","grace","holiness","holy","imperfect","justification","justification-by-faith","love","mercy","new-testament","old-testament","overwhelming","perfect","redemption","religion","respect","salvation","sanctification","savior","sin","skepticism","skepticism-of-religion","spirituality","theism","theology","truth","tyrant","wrath","wrath-of-god"],"id":166101,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":28,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}